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Five Step Guide to Examining Your Personal Vision
1. Think about your boundaries
Think about the boundaries that you've put around your vision of yourself and your life. Where have you fenced yourself in? What's off-limits? What's not possible for you?
2. Pinpoint your soothsayers
Who has shaped your vision of yourself? Deny your detractors and embrace your fans. Get discerning what who and what to believe, for the good of everyone.
3. Expand your mind
Wordsworth and Shelley took hallucinogenic drugs to expand their vision and intensify their passion. You don't have to go this far! But, you will have to put aside 30 minutes at least twice a week to consciously expand your horizons. Relax and begin a list headed, Thinking Bigger/Embracing Fresh Possibilities for Me.
4. See yourself as you would like to be
Commit yourself to spending a few minutes every day imagining yourself as you plan to be. The longer, more vividly, more intensely you can hold those images, the more convinced you will be of the inevitability of that transition. You'll elegantly ease yourself into that new way of being or circumstance.
5. Take a risk
Stretch your personal vision by pushing yourself to do something that challenges a limitation that you've identified. Go on. Regardless of the outcome, you'll shift your perspective of yourself in the process.
And, I know it's been said before, but it's worth remembering Goethe here:
'"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.."
